King Corn (2007)
You Are What You Eat.
88 min
King Corn is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden, heavily-subsidized commodity dominates the food pyramid from top to bottom – corn. Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naiveté, two college buddies return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa to figure out how a modest kernel conquered America. With the help of some real farmers, oodles of fertilizer and government aide, and some genetically modified seeds, the friends manage to grow one acre of corn. Along the way, they unlock the hilarious absurdities and scary but hidden truths about America’s modern food system in this engrossing and eye-opening documentary.
- Release date
- October 12, 2007
- Country of origin
- United States
- Box office
- $81,368
Trailer
Cast
- Bob Bledsoe as Self - Bledsoe Cattle Company
- Earl L. Butz as Self - Former Secretary of Agriculture
- Dawn Cheney as Self - Relative
- Ian Cheney as Self
- Don Clikeman as Self - Farmer
- Elna Clikeman as Self - Farmer
- Ken Cook as Self - Environmental Working Group
- Loren Cordain as Self - University of Colorado
- Curt Ellis as Self
- Audrae Erickson as Self - Corn Refiners Association
Crew
- Aaron Woolf · Director
- Aaron Woolf · Writer
- Ian Cheney · Writer
- Curtis Ellis · Writer
- Jeffrey K. Miller · Writer
- Aaron Woolf · Producer
- Simon Beins · Composer
- Johnny Dydo · Composer
- Sam Grossman · Composer
- Ian Cheney · Cinematographer
- Sam Cullman · Cinematographer
- Aaron G. Woolf · Cinematographer
- Jeffrey K. Miller · Editor